UltraNormal

"If the Supreme Court says that you have the right to consensual (gay) sex within your home, then you have the right to bigamy, you have the right to polygamy, you have the right to incest, you have the right to adultery. You have the right to anything." -- Senator Rick Santorum

I know it's old news, but the White House has come out supporting this guy, but this just blows my mind. Let's dissect it... the law is against sodomy (I think you all know where this is going, and if you're not a grown up and can't handle thinking or reading about this, please move on). So, the senator is against sodomy, because it's a "gateway" sex act to legalizing incest and bigamy? Let's talk about what each of these is and how ignorant the Senator is making himself look (he may indeed be ignorant, but this just makes him seem ignorant). Sodomy is an act that can happen between two consenting adults. If the two are consenting and undertake the "enterprise" of sodomy aware of the risks of such, then why is that against the law? See, here's why I have a problem with these laws. They're degrading. If consenting adults (sense a theme) feel it's OK for them to engage in such an act, they should be free to do so without fear of prosecution. And this is where Mr. Santorum misses the mark (all definitions from Mirriam Webster):

• Bigamy: the act of entering into a marriage with one person while still legally married to another. Usually, this is a case of fraud, where one or more of the parties does not consent. Therefore, as a case of fraud, I can support there being laws against it.
• Incest: sexual intercourse between persons so closely related that they are forbidden by law to marry; also : the statutory crime of such a relationship. In the common meaning, this is an intimate relationship between parent and child, most often when the child is either under undo psychological influence, or of such an age as to be unable to give proper consent. Again, no problem having laws against this, because it's more than likely an abusive relationship, and the taking advantage of a weaker party by a stronger with extraordinary influence over them.
• Adultery: voluntary sexual intercourse between a married man and someone other than his wife or between a married woman and someone other than her husband. Ahh, this one's a little tougher. I think it's definitely punishable in a civil sense if the spouse who isn't the adulterer in unaware and has not consented to the other committing adultery. Do we need a criminal statute? No, not really. We have divorce lawyers and marriage counselors.
• Polygamy:marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time. Why is polygamy illegal other than our county's Puritanical background? If all parties are of an age to consent to the marriages, and all give their free and uncoerced consent, then I don't see why they shouldn't be able to do it.

So, Mr. Santorum, do you just not know the meaning of the words, or do you want everyone to be subject to your own personal moral code? I would much rather live by my own.